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  • Henry Payne describes the particular kind of bread which is produced in the parish and which is called 'bara llechwen'. He also mentions the 'Gwyl Mabsant', a patronal festival held on the feast day of the saint to whom the parish church was dedicated. He goes into more detail on this subject in a footnote.
'Parochial noticies of the deanery of the third part of Brecknock', by Henry Thomas Payne, 1806, page 17 [image 19 of 83]
  • Diary for the period 24-30 July 1740. On 26 July, William notes that there were 'very few people in Llanfechell church occasioned by the old superstition of people of all sexes and ages going to Llanelian wakes to visit a dry skull, scraping an old stone and playing other Jugling tricks in the myfyr & ye Cwppwrdd'.
Diary of William Bulkeley, Brynddu, Llanfechell, vol. 1, 1734-43 [p. 395, image 15 of 18]